There have been claims and counterclaims about why some ‘gospels’ (that are claimed to be ‘gospels’) were left out of the New Testament. “Professor and columnist Timothy Paul Jones says there were many books competing for the church’s attention during the forming of the New Testament, but the ones that made it into the Bible stood out for one reason.” Apart from testing their authenticity against the writings of the accepted canon of Scripture of the Old Testament as well as against the writings accepted as authoritative that became the New Testament, for Prof. Jones there is one major reason: